-When the content is appropriate for all students, the teacher will present the information to all students at one time.
Activities appropriate for large-group instruction: story telling, presenting a show and tell, discussing interesting events, taking a field trip, brainstorming, playing a game, or viewing videotapes.
Advantages: time efficient and prepares students for teaching styles that will be present in secondary schools.
Disadvantages It does not allow for the teacher to alter the level of content in order to meet each student's individual needs.
Small-Group Instruction:
-Consists of three to seven students and represents the major format for teaching academic skills.
Activities appropriate for small-group instruction: varying levels of math, reading, science, functional skills, social studies, and handwriting/spelling.
Advantages: Students can participate more, greater amounts of praise and feedback, less boring for students, meets individual needs better, and students progress at their own rates.
Disadvantages: Students are required to do more seatwork, more planning for teachers, teachers must be organized, and teachers need to provide more instruction.
One Teacher with Student:
-Intensive tutorial teaching that is typically used with students who have learning disabilities in order to help them learn a new skill.
Activities: Any new or old skill that a student may be having extreme difficulty learning.
Advantages: Student can ask more questions, receive feedback, correct errors, and prevent further learning problems with specific skills.
Disadvantages: A lot of time-management by teacher, extra planning, takes away time from a majority of students, must plan activities for all other students in the classroom.
Teaching Students with Learning Problems, 8th Edition, Cecil D. Mercer; Ann R. Mercer; Paige C. Pullen (2011)
Large-Group Instruction:
-When the content is appropriate for all students, the teacher will present the information to all students at one time.
Activities appropriate for large-group instruction: story telling, presenting a show and tell, discussing interesting events, taking a field trip, brainstorming, playing a game, or viewing videotapes.
Advantages: time efficient and prepares students for teaching styles that will be present in secondary schools.
Disadvantages It does not allow for the teacher to alter the level of content in order to meet each student's individual needs.
Small-Group Instruction:
-Consists of three to seven students and represents the major format for teaching academic skills.
Activities appropriate for small-group instruction: varying levels of math, reading, science, functional skills, social studies, and handwriting/spelling.
Advantages: Students can participate more, greater amounts of praise and feedback, less boring for students, meets individual needs better, and students progress at their own rates.
Disadvantages: Students are required to do more seatwork, more planning for teachers, teachers must be organized, and teachers need to provide more instruction.
One Teacher with Student:
-Intensive tutorial teaching that is typically used with students who have learning disabilities in order to help them learn a new skill.
Activities: Any new or old skill that a student may be having extreme difficulty learning.
Advantages: Student can ask more questions, receive feedback, correct errors, and prevent further learning problems with specific skills.
Disadvantages: A lot of time-management by teacher, extra planning, takes away time from a majority of students, must plan activities for all other students in the classroom.
Teaching Students with Learning Problems, 8th Edition, Cecil D. Mercer; Ann R. Mercer; Paige C. Pullen (2011)